Results 121-140 of 211 for cork speaker:Danny Healy-Rae

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is a lot of talk about operating these services at night. Rural Ireland is different from Dublin and many other places, including Cork city. In the mornings we do not have Luas, DART or bus services to transport us to work. There are many people who are isolated at the moment. They cannot even go to pubs anymore because many have closed already. People cannot have a social drink at...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Second Stage (26 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...and bad weather. Will the Minister explain how much of a package we will get from Europe to assist our farmers and fishermen? The cross-border health directive has been vital for many people in Kerry and west Cork. Through it, Deputy Michael Collins and I have taken 25 buses of people to the North of Ireland to get operations to remove cataracts, get hip or knee replacements, as well...

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...get roasted in the local elections and in the next general election. It is delaying this review until after those elections. We have an anomaly in Kerry in that all along the Kerry border with Cork, the people in Kerry pay way more in property tax than the people in Cork for property of the same value, however that has come to pass. We have highlighted that often enough in the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...Taoiseach is hurting a lot of good people. We talk about deaths. Surely he knows about isolation and what it causes. We are losing a lot of people through suicide. That is a fact in Kerry and Cork, witnessed before, during and since Christmas. The Government promised to provide transport and promised plenty of funding for it. It has done nothing but hurt the people. The Government...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...in this regard? There is no test centre for buses or lorries in south Kerry, which means people who want to have their vehicles tested must leave Valencia or Cahersiveen and travel to north Kerry or to Cork, whichever is nearer. Many of these operators are asking for this service to be provided in the southern half of the county. Who makes decisions in this regard? Is it the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: There were six floods and no one could get in or out of their houses. Ambulances could not pass up or down the main road to Cork.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...to be assessed. We do not know the figures for them but they are many. They telephone me and other public representatives every day. I ask that they be treated in private hospitals or sent to Cork, Limerick or Dublin. We will be taking them on buses to Belfast in the coming weeks. It is not right that our health service is letting all these people down. I have asked that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...year but we need the rest of it and more with the way the thing is going. Hen harrier designation may not affect farmers and other Deputies here, but it certainly affects part of Kerry and north-west Cork. Farmers are not being compensated as regards the hen harrier designation for not being able to work their land the way they would like to. They cannot plant their land and it is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...appointments that are not being fulfilled. Many more are waiting to be assessed and are in pain. I ask the Taoiseach to ask the HSE and managers to spread the work around and make appointments in Cork, where there are two hospitals, Limerick and Dublin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...operates in Kerry. The witnesses can confirm or deny it but there is a rumour going around that Bus Éireann is using buses that are older than 20 years. The rumour is that is the case in different areas of Cork and perhaps parts of Kerry. I cannot understand how the RSA could write to the Department and say there are buses that are not up to standard because all contractors'...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...who need a hip or knee replacement are in significant pain. The ear, nose and throat section of University Hospital Kerry in Tralee is currently closed. People awaiting a hospital appointment in Cork are choking and afraid to sleep at night. Each day 25 patients on trolleys are awaiting attention in University Hospital Kerry. People are waiting to see consultants who are not even...

Implications of Brexit for Irish Ports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...lorries pass me daily on the way to Castletownbere. The road going from Kenmare to Lauragh is in a desperate state. Going back a number of years, my father got funding for a part of it but the Cork side back to Castletownbere is only fit for two donkeys and cars to pass each other. That is the truth. It is not fair on the lorry drivers trying to negotiate the roads with loads of fish....

Companies (Statutory Audits) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (10 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...contractors or companies, that are trying to put bread on the table and working very hard for their money and not getting it for nothing, should come up to the High Court or go to the High Court in Tralee or Cork to extend their deadline. This is highly unsatisfactory and I ask the Minister to drop it because it will hurt a lot of small businesses and drive them further into the ground.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...are not as good and one uses way more diesel on that type of road. People in those rural places need to get their goods and supplies just as much as their counterparts it in the cities of Dublin, Cork or Limerick. I am amazed by the way Governments and Ministers change their advice. In 2007, we were advised to buy diesel cars and there was an incentive introduced which reduced the...

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...for hips and knees and every other type of operation. The most serious thing at present is that people are waiting in our cardiac unit, a unit that does massive work for many people in Kerry, Cork and the south of Ireland. In CUH there are people waiting as we are speaking. We have five Ministers for Health, a Government and a Department of Health but we do not have a health system....

Dublin Fire Brigade: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...reduction. In many instances now, it can be an hour or more before an ambulance arrives in parts of Kerry because the service is stretched to the limit. A Tralee-based ambulance that comes out of Cork University Hospital has to press a button to report availability for work and can end up in Kinsale or Kanturk rather than back in Tralee. When that happens, Kerry is left without an...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...cannot build these rural cottages, I do not know what is wrong with it. If it does not have the money it should tell us because we hear the stories of homelessness in urban areas such as Dublin, Cork, Limerick and other places. Maybe the Government does not have the money but it should tell us if it does not. People will understand that. Ten rural cottages in Kerry is not enough in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Multi-Annual Financial Framework after 2020: European Commission (12 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...suckler herd farmers will leave the sector the next few years. If we do not have the calf, then we do not have the heifer or the bullock down the road. Traditionally the farmers in Kerry, west Cork, Mayo and Clare supply the weanlings. They produce very good animals and they are very good at it, but they are not being paid or rewarded. Some of these farmers are barely existing. Costs...

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protection) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...process. Accommodation, college fees, living expenses and travel can easily exceed €9,000 and even €10,000 for each student. Students from all around Kerry have long distances to travel to Cork, Limerick, Galway, Dublin and Waterford from places like Lauragh, Kenmare, Cahirciveen, Dingle, Tralee, Killarney, Listowel and all the places in between. These are savage distances...

Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...Government's watch because of delays in being treated for cataracts. The aforementioned survey refers to waiting times of between 28 months and five years but there are people in Kerry and west Cork who have been waiting even longer. I know of one man who was waiting for seven years for surgery. His grandfather had a cataract removed in 1968 in Tralee Hospital. This country is going...